Could At-Home Brain Stimulation Reduce Psychiatry’s Reliance on S.S.R.I.s?
“Our brains are so pharmaceutically inclined,” he said. “This fits into the model of pills.” At the same time, tDCS could also challenge the current, pill-centric paradigm, by pushing psychiatrists to go beyond old notions of serotonin deficiencies and chemical imbalances, and to think more broadly about getting the brain unstuck. The two treatments together,…
